2008
Dunreath O. Grover, 88, a retired institutional food services manager, died of a pulmonary embolism Dec. 16 at the
Methodist Home of the District of Columbia. He was a District resident.
Mr. Grover was born in Washington and was a member of the first graduating class of Woodrow Wilson High School. He
attended the University of Maryland before serving in the Army during World War II. His four years of service included a year and
a half in the Aleutian Islands.
After the war, Mr. Grover worked for several restaurants in the Washington area before joining the company that provided food
services for various U.S. Department of Agriculture agencies and offices in the Washington area.
Mr. Grover, who had a background in accounting, later became executive vice president of Cleaves Food Service, a Silver
Spring-based company that served universities, nursing homes, hospitals and other institutions.
He was on the board of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington and served as president in 1969. In 1973, the
association named him Restaurateur of the Year.
After his retirement in 1984, he volunteered for 10 years in the admissions office at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
His wife, Gloria Grover, died in 1993.
Survivors include two children, Mary Grover Ehrgood of the District and Christopher L. "Kit" Grover of London; a sister, Margaret
Ann Scott of Bethesda; and two grandchildren.